Samsung adds WiFi to the i550 (S60 3rd Edition FP1)

Good news from Samsung. They've decided (by popular demand, I must presume) to create a new version of the i550 smartphone that also has WiFi. It's called the i550w, and while I don't yet know the availability or price (read: if it's more expensive than the no-WiFi version), I definitely think that WiFi was the one very big feature missing from this phone (and all the other recently announced S60 smartphones from Samsung).

This was rather unexplainable, to me at least, since they are starting to make good use of their S60 licensee state, but hardcore S60 (and general smartphone) fans surely did miss WiFi, which is present in almost all the recent smartphones, whatever the platform.

Very, very good move, Samsung! Now if only you could do the same for, say, the i560, and all future S60 phones, it would be great. Also great would be releasing truly innovative (feature and/or design-wise) S60 phones, but that seems to be a rather long way ahead.

Full specs of the original i550 here.

[Source: Engadget Mobile]

The picture of the i550w is from Eprice.